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President Obama visited storm-wrecked New Jersey with Governor Chris Christie, and two Cabinet officers toured a Federal Emergency Management Agency facility in Middletown on Friday.

FEMA has said that it will extend a
program to provide temporary housing to New Yorkers displaced by
Hurricane Sandy for an additional month.

After the storm: Vice President Biden visits the Hurricane Sandy-damaged city of Seaside Heights, New Jersey

Show of strength: Biden told the people of New Jersey that helping rebuild the region was not a local problem but a national one

The
extension will allow applicants, whose homes were damaged by the
devastating storm, to stay in hotels or motels until appropriate
accommodations become available.

'We know that some survivors in hard-hit areas are facing critical
challenges to getting back into their homes,' Federal Coordinating
Officer Michael F. Byrne said.

'We are working in close coordination with our
state and local partners to do all we can to speed that process. Until
that day, the TSA extension will offer eligible survivors some relief.'

The program began on November 3, after the storm hit New York on October 29. It was scheduled to expire on November 16.

Now the program has been extended to December 14.

Extended: FEMA has extended its program providing temporary housing to New Yorkers displaced by Superstorm Sandy (pictured: impacted residents line up to receive donations from charitable organizations on Saturday in Coney Island)

Still displaced: The temporary housing program, offered for those displaced by the storm (pictured: residents impacted by the storm on Coney Island on Saturday) would have expired on November 16